JOHN FOWLER (1826-1864)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V10,
Page 761
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:JOHN See also:FOWLER (1826-1864)
, See also:English inventor, was See also:born at See also:Melksham, Wilts, on the 1th of See also:July 1826
.
He learned See also:practical See also:engineering at Middlesborough-on-See also:Tees, and about 1850 invented a See also:mechanical See also:system for the drainage of See also:land
.
In 1852 he began experiments in See also:steam cultivation, and in 1858 the Royal Agricultural Society awarded him the See also:prize of 500 which it had offered for a steam-See also:cultivator that should be an economic substitute for the plough or the See also:spade
.
In 186o he founded at Hunslet, See also:Leeds, the See also:firm of See also:Fowler & Co., manufacturers of agricultural machinery, See also:traction engines, &c
.
He died at Ackworth, See also:Yorkshire, on the 4th of See also:December 1864
.
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